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Executive Order No. 86: President of The Philippines
Executive Order No. 86: President of The Philippines
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WHEREAS, as enunciated in Republic Act No. 7684, otherwise known as the Electric
Power Crises Act of 1993, it is the "declared policy of the State to adopt adequate and
effective measures to address the electric power crisis that has disrupted the country's
economic and social life and assumed the nature and magnitude of a public calamity";
WHEREAS, the same law provides, among others, that in pursuance of the said policy, the
President is "authorized, whenever it is necessary for the national welfare and in the public
interest, to fix the rate of return on rate base of the National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR)
to not more than twelve percentum (12%) of the rate base as defined in Section 4 of Republic
Act No. 6395, as amended"; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Energy has recommended that, considering the gravity of
the current electric power crisis, it is necessary for the national welfare and in the public
interest that the rate of return on rate base of the NAPOCOR be adjusted from ten percent,
(10%) to twelve percent (12%) of the rate base.
This Order shall take effect the day following its complete publication in a newspaper of
general circulation.
DONE in the City of Manila, this 5'" day of May in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred
and Ninety-Three.
By the President: